Giant azhdarchid pterosaurs from the terminal Cretaceous of Transylvania (western Romania)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 217, Issue , 2003, Pages 91-104

  Buffetaut, Eric ^a   Grigorescu, Dan ^b   Csiki, Zoltan ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; MORPHOLOGY; PTEROSAUR; SKULL; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRANSYLVANIA;

ANIMALIA; HATZEGOPTERYX; HATZEGOPTERYX THAMBEMA; PTEROSAURIA; QUETZALCOATLUS NORTHROPI; THAMBEMA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0347028261     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.217.01.09     Document Type: Article

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